Yan Yun felt the Qi stir in her core, crackling with the promise of violence and thunder. Her Qi waited to be let out, to strike and bring her enemies down to their knees. The whispers of strength crawled upon her ears, as the girl took a deep breath, holding the calm that years of meditation and practice had instilled in her.Moving her hand forward, she stilled her dantian further, stopping all movements in her body as she waited, breath held tight.Lightning struck with ferocity, splitting into five parts as the currents flowing around her hands, tingling her flesh. Yan Yun let the lightning pass through her body, as she felt it move towards the earth.“Success?” Leiyu asked, flying over as the yellow feathered eagle perched upon her shoulders.“I am close,” Yan Yun replied, watching her hand where the lightning had struck it. The ability to control all lightning, not merely her own. It was an ability associated with one's Domain, found upon touching the ninth realm. Yet Yan Yun fe

Even with my mad rush of preparations, I hadn’t failed to notice the changes happening around the sect. I’d sensed a lot more people rushing by, as the entire sect had taken on a festive atmosphere. Yet, having finally come out, I could admit that what I saw completely blew away my expectations.Stalls and merchants lined the outer roads to the sect itself, with a long line of people heading and walking inside the sect premises, bowing at every step whenever they saw a cultivator, before going about as they gazed at the various sights around.My Qi senses were brimming to the fill as a veritable hoard of people walked around, with many of them being at the first realm. What surprised me even more though, was the number of non-cultivators that were walking within the sect grounds.It felt almost as if the entire population of Seventh Peak City had decided to come over, and perhaps it wouldn’t even be an exaggeration to say they had.I walked up the hill as the sun rays started to peek

I stood upon a little cave entrance, looking inside as I rechecked what I was sensing, and then turned towards Flee for confirmation. I received a nod from her and then turned back to look at the cave once more. It seems we’d found a treasure.I began to make my way inside the cave, keeping my guard up to encounter anything or anyone, and blast them with my drugnades. A few minutes later, I found myself in front of what looked to be an odd gate. Glancing at the structure for a moment for any traps I went inside and stopped instantly, noting the Qi that saturated the air. I was used to high Qi saturation due to my spirit herb garden in my room, but this? This was something else entirely.I walked further in fascinated, and drawn in by the lure of the Qi when I heard a chittering sound. Jumping around I quickly dug around, about to throw my drugnade but something held my hand. I looked up and noted spiders clinging onto the walls, spirit beasts that looked down at me, chittering and cla

“Squeadik!” the mushroom chanted with power, raising its fist as its speech reached a conclusion, and with a powerful and high-pitched roar, the mushrooms joined in all at once.Together, they rose and opened their mouths, starting to sing a song, as I felt the Qi swirl around the room. The mushroom that had just talked to Twilight turned back at me, its expressionless eyeholes somehow feeling extremely determined.It walked to the wall, putting its hands at the barrier that stopped it as it screamed and the mushrooms all screamed with him.I watched in silence, my confusion growing more and more with each passing second. Twilight interrupted me, chiming as she pointed at the wall.“Chii!!” she exclaimed, as the word played in my mind once more. “Help!”“Wait, I’m supposed to help them… break that?” I asked, confused when Twilight nodded. I turned around to face the wall, before taking a quick breath.Focusing my Qi I began to swirl it in turn with the mushrooms. “Tell them to focus i

I continued to observe in silence, as the two tried to find some sort of solution to open the mushroom gate. Oddly enough, the carving on the gate itself had changed from the evil sharp toothed mushroom, to be the face of a tiny mushroom leader, standing tall and proud, with Flee by his side, and Twilight standing nearby. I even spotted a depiction of myself, floating in the air, as I held a glowing mushroom in my hand, while the rest of them were bowing in my direction.It seems our little battle had left a mark.A frown covered my face, when the same gate was attacked with a powerful blast. The gate shuddered, but held still, but the cultivators continued unfettered. A few moments of powerful explosions of Qi later, something cracked, as the gate started to crumble.In an explosion that kicked up dirt all over, the gate collapsed, as the way inside opened up. I sensed the two cultivators step through the dust cloud and inside.Waiting a second longer, I got up and prepared to rush i